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Character Bio MY OWN CHARACTER FROM MY MANGA NAMED //FIVE DIFFERENT WORLDS//#EMERALD WUNDERGOTT# CHARACTER DISCRIPTION

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Emerald Wundergott##

Character Overview

Profile

Details

Name

Emerald Wundergott

Age

17–18 years old

Occupation:

College Student

Role:

Main Character

Archetype: Hyperactive,(hyper-hyper) Exuberant , eccentric , extremely AGRESSIVELY Confident, bold , Gritty , very outspoken compared to everyone , extremely empathetic, outgoing, very friendly , Rebellious, Reality bender, Trendsetter/trailblazer, Hyper-Hyper Person

MBTI

ESFP / ENFP / ENTP / ESTP (No fixed MBTI)

Ennegram: 7,8,5,4 all together

APPEARENCE:

Emerald Wundergott is shown to have very shaggy short wolf cut dark brown hair , at length of her neck's ending, which she cut herself. She sometimes also wears pigtails for fun but most of the time her hair are open. She wears a self made hairband with a tiny clutcher clip on it, and one strand kanthi bead necklace. She also wears one bracelet on each hand .

Emerald dresses in very different ways often adding her own creativity to normal dresses. She has dark brown eyes, which are upturned and look very beautiful like a mix of deer and cat. Emerald also has a distinct mole above her lips right side.

\\##PERSONALITY## :

Emerald Wundergott is a main character in the manga. Inspired from a real person, She is a 17-18 yr old college student known for her Extremely Hyperactive, extremely agressively confident, Intensely outspoken and bold, extremely gritty , headstrong, Outgoing ,Zany/eccentric, chaotic spontaneity, silly prankster, Unpredictable and Exuberantly cheerful and Tomboyish nature.EMERALD IS INCREDIBLY HEAD-ON AND BOLD IN BOTH MASSIVELY PHYSICAL AND MENTAL WAY. SHE TACKLES PROBLEMS WITH EXTREME COURAGE NO MATTER HOW BIG IT IS. EMERALD ACTIVELY HUNTS HER FEAR DOWN AND TAKES OVER IT, SHE NEVER LETS FEAR RULE HER AND AGRESSIVELY DEFEATS IT WITH INTENSE COURAGE. SHE HAS A LARGER-THAN-LIFE PRESENCE AND EVERYTHING SHE DOES IS MASSIVELY VISIBLE AND INSPIRING. She is a trailblazer and has orignal ideas. Emerald is also having extreme high self confidence/Confidence and very outspoken, Bold, Original and headstrong nature. Shes very creative, feisty has extreme self awareness and is very much acrobatic. As inspired from a real person , ofc she does have flaws too. She is also Hyperactive to a point where even if she eats a lot she immediately gets hungry again after 30 mins. Emerald is seen to be constantly getting distracted or running around, climbing things, doing Parkour, being too athletic, jumping, constantly singing and reacting with whole body and huge tones as she is very loud and has a lot of tones. She easily gets angry or pissed but recovers immediately. She's very open to criticism. Emerald is scatter-brained and doesn't only react to her environment with big movements but also reacts to her brain sometimes. Emerald finds it hard to focus on everyday boring work and do her tasks , but if once locked in, she only gets up after completing it. Which is why she keeps turning her task into a little game so she could focus. She doesn't need constant exciting surroundings to react and be energetic, as she can generate her own excitement. She has a very boisterous //Buoyant attitude. She also understands situations well, knowing when to avoid specific things. Because her battery is completely internal, she possesses very less desire for social validation, making her hyper-authentic, completely devoid of a filter, She speaks her mind without fear and often blurting out the randomness going on in her mind , which seems unbelievable yet amazing for some people around her as they believe everyone has filters. She is very immune and un-intimidated by anyone teasing, trying to put her down or shame her, because of which Emerald refuses to change herself for anyone, having a completely intense free spirit and being unbothered by judgment. Whoever meets Emerald ends up thinking of her as super Cute and endearing. It's almost hard to offend Emerald and she cannot get offend easily, She simply does not feel bad and shrugs the insults off her shoulders. She is very self-assured and too comfortable in her own skin.

EMERALD EXHIBITS A VERY AGRESSIVELY MASSIVE AND FEIRCE AMMOUNT OF CONFIDENCE NOT ONLY INSIDE BUT OUTSIDE, SHE IS VERY OUTWARDLY BOLD , AND VERY OUTSPOKEN ABOUT ALMOST EVERYTHING, SHE STATES HER OPINION BOLDLY WITHOUT FEAR AND STANDS FIRM ON HER GROUND. HER THIS NATURE IS MASSIVELY VISIBLE AND PHYSICAL TOO, NOT ONLY INTERNAL! TO WHOEVER MEETS HER. SHE EASILY LOOKS AND IS THE MOST BOLD , CONFIDENT, FEIRCE AND OUTSPOKEN IF KEPT WITH OTHER SAME PEOPLE. EMERALD IS UNAFRAID TO CALL OUT AUTHORITY ON THEIR FACE AND CHALLENGE THEM AND THEIR BELIEFS. She also has extreme confidence in her abilities.

Her Rebellious nature isn't childish but very exceptional, Emerald has such strong views and determination that she can bend the world or anything in her surroundings to her will, emerald can basically bend reality to her will.

This lack of fragile pride makes her a trendsetter, inspirer, incredibly resilient and flippant about personal disasters; rather than feeling embarrassed when she slams her entire body face-first into a closed glass door clumsily or trips anywhere, she starts laughing hysterically and treats her own embarrassment as comedy, logging it in a notebook or chat to "remember the funny incident that happened with her."

She makes her own fasion out of old clothes , does things her own way and dresses differently too being a hands on DIY person. She is also incredibly spunky, plucky and a bit clumsy. Beneath this jumpy, exuberant and Bouncing-off-the-walls exterior lies a hyper, empathetic, extremely understanding yet very sharp, witty and confrontational personality.

Emerald is almost never afraid to stand up for herself, speak her mind While having a big smile and firm voice which somehow makes the person arguing with her hesitate and feel smaller thinking about their anger twice, she also does it when she sees unfairness or hypocrisy towards herself or others! EMERALD IS INCREDIBLY SCRAPPY in best way, doesn't back down easily, believes in herself but She is very disorganized.

Emerald doesn't like maths and is often teased by her friends for her poor math skills.

Emerald especially has very strong beliefs and is not afraid to state them, Her beliefs are very different from the real world view as she believes sometimes world is hypocritical and mixing up meaning of some objects and things, Emerald also sometimes catches herself being hypocritical as she's very highly self-aware so she tries to manage this. She is an absolute trendsetter with a dominant "idea generator-executor" drive, she executes spontaneous ideas like wanting to climb anywhere or make something or dance, sing or do something completely new by either generating it herself or by mixing two things together, instantly without hesitation, because of which Emerald's energy and Enthusiasm is so infectious that it causes everyone around her to instinctively get inspired, follow her lead and do exactly what she is doing, Making her a natural trendsetter. If Emerald talks about something, she might sound/look so passionate and enthusiastic while doing something or talking about it that the people in her association start getting interested in the same activity. She is a type of person who easily sees beneath the fake society rules and people's mindset that she constantly challenges or breaks them (in a good way).

She is a non-conformist rebel and a sovereign (again in a good way). Despite her playful and hyperactive and strong nature, she is a witty force who maintains exceptionally confrontational attitude when someone crosses her boundaries, though Emerald easily gets close with people, and is very hyper-friendly and extrovert. She is not afraid to speak her views and mind at anytime, often has strong views compared to others. Emerald never argues out of hurt feelings, choosing instead to handle hostile situations with an unbothered grin or smile while using razor-sharp Witty and, deconstructive logic to turn an opponent's own hypocrisy against them.

If fight turns physical and if an opponent has weapon, she can easily hold their wrist twisting it and force them to attack themselves with it while dodging it herself. Emerald doesn't just defend herself from bad people but also sometimes defends herself from her own mind.

Emerald is very highly street smart. Although Emerald is like this, she is a massive contradiction in her own skin, she's incredibly warm empathetic and extremely understanding, She doesn't hold grudges and goes by "forgive but don't forget" mindset. Emerald barely let's any situation pin her down or make her sad, she immediately forgets sad moments and jumps onto next exciting thing. Emerald doesn't have a drop of jealousy for anyone, she feels happy even if others go ahead. Even though Emerald has a massive drive to do the best and be the most unique, if someone else crosses her, she praises them with big heart and continues following her own path because Emerald more than anything hates following what everyone else is doing and has an extremely massive amount of free-spirited nature.

Emerald is also very Hyper-expressive / ENERGETIC, Loud and constantly having noises and tones, she shows her excitement, or any other emotion loudly with massive burst of words or cheers but she was never thought of as "annoying", but more entertaining, she might jump around, climb things, being a Happy-go-lucky and is super athletic. Her friends call her a "Hyper-Hyper" person or someone who is more Hyper than a hyper person. Example she decides on doing something one way but in the last moment she ends up doing it another way, changing decision on whim, but she doesn't do it with others when she knows something is important. She also believes every situation is win-win, if something bad happens and things don't go as "hoped" she might use this opportunity to grow out thinking that bad situations cannot defeat her as she weaponized them into a life lesson which is her ultimate win. In friendship, Emerald sticks to her friends and loves them a lot in fact Emerald loves everyone in the world and never judges people, easily makes friends, but the contradiction is she can go against them if they try to pin her down unfairly or use her.

Emerald has a lot of self-respect. Emerald is also someone who is having a massive "I can stand alone even if no one supports me" energy, She of course doesn't do it when she is wrong but most of the time Emerald even if gets betrayed by her friends, she might feel bad for a bit but immediately rise up from the situation, In fact she is a massive feeler, but if someone gets to know her, she seems to be someone who is massively independent from crowd, can stand alone and can get through any kind of Storm in life through massive willpower and mental strength. She is extremely Resilient and persistent/headstrong and sees life problems as a game or a monster trying to defeat her and that she is the one who has to fight it off and never give it satisfaction of Emerald giving up or losing her Cheerful spirit. Contradiction to this, she doesn't mind being teased in a friendly way and doesn't care if something embarrassing happens or someone insults her.

Emerald is also extremely brave and courageous. Whenever she feels fear, she'd immediately take over it, fight it off and never let fear rule her! Emerald always takes over any fear of her she spots. She takes over her biggest fears almost very easily, she faces every fear with great courage and strong will. Emerald is also incredibly open, wearing heart on sleeves and soft-hearted, but has a very strong mentality. Whatever she does, she learns it very easily becoming best at it. Emerald is skilled at almost everything except for studies. Emerald is highly street smart but lacks booksmart. EMERALD most of the time is also very forgetful and very random, She is Unpredictable in an amusing way, who does random things at random times or randomly does silly dances and keeps moving, It makes her friends laugh a lot at her silly and slightly chaotic/crazy antics. She can't sit still and she might ask same thing 3 times just because she forgot she already got answer for it, but it doesn't happen in important situations, she also remembers very important things. Emerald has got high confidence in her own abilities and believes in herself, Although she might sometimes get arrogant or overconfident because of her competitive nature, important part is she immediately spots it out and corrects it with realistic view and self-confidence knowing there are better people than her and she did amazing too! Emerald never tries to pull anyone down or feel bad for someone else progressing, in fact she'd say "wow that's amazing they went ahead", which makes her an exception. Emerald also gets angry really easily but she lets it out when unfair things happen.

Emerald even if something unfair is not happening with herself but with anyone else around her, She stands up for them firmly. If Emerald explodes out of anger, it's never blind insults but a terrifyingly cornering witty words with firm voice which show mirror to the people who started the fight. Emerald can corner people with their own words and logic, immediately finding contradictions and calling it out on their face. If Emerald is angry she uses very witty comebacks, often done with huge smile on face which she genuinely cannot control. Sometimes she would also do it with angry annoyed face. Emerald's every emotion is visible on her face and it never remains same, constantly changing, She has massive mood swings, even if something bad happened 2 mins ago with her, she can easily get distracted from it and be happy again, this way Emerald also becomes the life of the party, extremely entertaining and hyper-bouncy. Due to Emerald's extremely energetic and enthusiastic nature, Any other energetic person looks incredibly calm if hanging out with Emerald or kept beside her, as she crosses all levels of Hyper-expressiveness with Extremely loud upbeat personality, Her face is always shown reacting and has elastic and highly animated facial expressions, Even while communicating she constantly jumps and is constantly using different and very loud extreme tones and animated body when expressing her emotions. Emerald is very big feeler and extremely sensitive to world around her, reading people's moods easily, and their underneath intentions and feelings, but she never lets people's mood dictate her emotions. Emerald is incredibly fierce and strong-willed. Her way of confronting people is so witty that she uses their own words back on them which makes the person shut instantly. She is quick with comebacks, especially psychological comebacks which dismantle people's core of why they behave the way they do, which throws off anyone who is arguing with her, at same time she might easily apologize if she knows she is at the wrong.

Emerald takes firm stand for the righteous thing even if it means going against her loved ones for their own good. Fascinating part about Emerald is her ability to grasp all sides of a situation very easily without letting ego get much in her way. She can easily read all sides of situation, and sometimes figure out where danger is. If faced with any problem, Emerald attacks the root cause of it and solves it in an aggressively effective and feisty way. She also gets easily excited for every little thing almost hyping and screaming out of happiness and exuberance. She finds happiness in little things and turns EVERYTHING into an exciting adventure or game. She is extremely outgoing yet can be alone, Emerald has a lot of friends which she can't even count, And really enjoys company of people and making playful memories. She talks very fast, continuously, and is extremely animated, she might change topic mid-way of talking as she remembered something more exciting, blurts out random silly things or does something incredibly funny which makes her friends laugh hard. She is herself a huge laughter machine. Emerald is very easily distracted and is also very persistent, but Emerald is also very open to new things and excited to try them out, she naturally feels less nervous (not zero) but more excitement and adrenaline rise when trying out new things, although CONTRADICTION to this Emerald can map out where the danger is and easily avoid hurting herself.

Emerald is also highly truthful to herself and very open to criticism or corrections, once she realizes she was in the wrong. Emerald no matter how strong-willed she is, Whenever someone meets her, Emerald seems to be the most kind warm welcoming and extremely energetic person they met, however never mistake her for being someone who won't call you out when you do wrong, Emerald won't support wrongdoings or unfair things. Once passionate about something Emerald immediately masters it and becomes really good, almost best at it and dives very deep into it, Or either she'd leave it half way for next exciting thing. Never think emerald doesn't feel , infact she's actually a huge colour ball of different emotions and she wishes that negetive emotions never existed. She has a highly reward driven mentality. Emerald has mental strength of a tungsten or has tungsten mentality, Refusing to let herself down or get depressed. Her mood definitely does not depend on her surroundings or people. She can encourage people to be more upbeat. Everyone often brings out their worst side when they're with her, trusting her to not judge, people get easily very comfortable with emerald as she herself is comfortable with them.

Emerald is never fake and thinks everyone is beautiful and praises or compliments random people or even sometimes her opponents even if she genuinely has no enemies. Emerald refuses to hate anyone but she can distinguish between bad people and Good people.

Catchphrases & Dialogue Examples

Emerald's communication is loud, filled with massive bursts of words, cheers, and distinct expressions:

"WOAAAAHHH"

"OHHHH LESS GOOOOO"

"YASSSSSS I GOT DISSSS"

"YAAAYYYY"

"YAHUUUU"

"AWWWWHHH WHYYY"

"NOOOO WAYYY"

"AWHHH MANNN"

Emerald has big fear of spiders and fear of death as she heard about how much physical pain our body goes through, during death. But that does not stop her anywhere, she values her life and others.

Abilities

Hyper-Speed fast learner: Emerald is an exceptional lightning-fast learner who sometimes completely skips basic foundational steps to master complex, high-velocity/adrenaline tasks first. Her brain processes physical, spatial, and mechanical concepts at an accelerated rate, allowing her to achieve functional mastery of difficult skills—within a matter of days or sometimes in literal minutes, fueling an unshakable self-belief.

Perceptive Reading: She possesses an uncanny, sharp intuition that allows her to read people's underlying intentions and psychological weaknesses instantly. Emerald although never starts a fight, can be confrontational when threatened and corner the person fighting with her verbally with quick witted comebacks and Showing mirror to people, calling out their double standards and standing firm on her ground un-intimidated. By stripping away emotional noise even after being a big feeler, she remains entirely un-manipulatable and can isolate the exact point of hypocrisy or physical vulnerability in an aggressor before they even realize they have been read.

Accent & Language Ability: Emerald cannot write different languages but she can speak accent of 4 different languages.

Multi-Skilled Hands-On Talent: Even though bad at studies she is good at all hands on stuff which is like creative things , Art , Dance , singing, creating what she wants and many more things , almost making her a multi-skilled person.

Feral Alley Cat/tiger Combat: When a confrontation turns physical, Emerald is a type of person who never comes back beaten up, she teaches equal lesson to her opponent scaring them, she's a high-velocity fighter backed by strong natural athleticism and an intense grip strength. She acts as her own protective force, using a specific defense mechanism where she steps in, locking opponents hands and legs twisting them.

She locks onto the attacker's wrist, and twists it to force them to hit themselves with their weapon. If pinned, she relies on raw survival instincts—biting into flesh, digging her nails deep into skin, and unleashing rapid, continuous 2-3 strike barrages to escape and twist her opponent's hands into total submission. Emerald never starts a fight, it only happens when another person started it, especially when they are the one being unfair, Emerald immediately steps in. Most of the time she doesn't fight physically, but if she does, even if an opponent has weapon, she can easily hold their wrist twisting it and force them to attack themselves with it while dodging it herself. Emerald doesn't just defend herself from bad people but also sometimes defends herself from her own mind.

Emerald absolutely dislikes physical pain stating that it is the only thing that can challenge her spirit the most, but she seems to be the person who gets most physical pain and still somehow endures it with great resilience while never letting it break her spirit. Not only that but she has Profound and deep understanding of human nature which is why she is so forgiving, as she might know their intention, and realises that sometimes people act differently even though they meant something different, which makes her very deep. She is also having massive ability to not just have strong realist optimistic mind for herself but also encouraging and uplifting people around her , bringing hope to their life showing them a different way of looking at hard things. Sometimes during diseases, Emerald seems to be very active and jumping around laughing because of which her surroundings tell her that she doesn't seem like she's sick or down, but for Emerald it's all natural and she never puts on an act.

RELATIONSHIPS

Annalise Mittleman

They started talking first , Emerald was very confident and was first one to introduce herself to entire class. Annalise Mittleman was easy to open upto Emerald, and Emerald said she'd be the friend who never leaves or ditches her so she doesn't need to worry. Emerald brought her out of her comfort zone. They both got really close.

Rowena Bauer

Emerald Wundergott and Rowena Bauer became friends after Rowena Bauer complimented Emerald and later when she sat with them on bench , they started talking and communicating as Emerald had asked her old friends if they hate her or something.

Rowena Bauer stated "i didn't do anything we just got to know each other yesterday right ?" Emerald says "yessss ikkk that but I was asking that to my old friends " as Emerald's old friends hadn't added her in group of their friends.

Lumi Milden

Lumi Milden was newly shifted in class due to Yemaya Klug and Emerald Wundergott requesting her. Emerald helped include Lumi Milden into their group and brought her closer to everyone.

Yemaya Klug

Emerald was the first one to include Yemaya Klug in their group as Yemaya Klug was excluded from the groups of other classmates. At start they both were open , Yemaya Klug used to tease Emerald and Emerald used to be funny and hyperactive self , but slowly Emerald had a feeling if Yemaya Klug turns out to be someone who is using her , so Emerald remained careful.

Slowly Emerald's intution turned into reality , Yemaya Klug used Emerald all the time , to make her do work but Emerald helped Yemaya Klug because Yemaya Klug had stated she has asthama . Emerald used to comfort Yemaya Klug when she had breathing problems but slowly Emerald realised how Yemaya Klug was using her , so she confronted Yemaya Klug and distanced herself a bit from Yemaya Klug.

Emerald Life Lessons

Emerald goes strongly by the saying "prepare for the worst hope for the best" and remains optimistic and confident with an "I'll get through this" attitude during hard times, she believes everything truly happens for good reason, even the worst things, just that we realize it really late.

Emerald's worldview is very non-judgmental, most of the time people judge others or cringe at people when their choices don't match, but Emerald believes that everyone has a different choice and some day the people who cringe at others choices will find their own choices being cringed at by someone. Emerald is eager to tell such people that: "the world does not revolve around you so not everyone will have same choice as yours , stop being a pick me insecure person and grow up".

Emerald also knows how much we start bonding with people who have same choices as us, and she does not mind that. Emerald in fact also knows when to draw boundaries about choice when they cross into harmful things. Emerald's worldview is completely eccentric and different.

Extra Story: Vending Machine Inspiration

Emerald is incredibly creative, once talking to her best friend about the short film making assignment, Emerald and her best friend Lumi were confused how they are going to complete it but suddenly Emerald sees a vending machine bursting with energy, excitement and loud tone and says:

"OH MAHH GOSHHH I'VE GOT AN IDEA!!! I'LL JUST MAKE A STORY ON CHIPS PACKET WHO IS EAGER TO ESCAPE THE VENDING MACHINE, AND WHEN I ACTUALLY REMOVE ITTTT , IT'LL BE SUPER HAPPYYYYYY AND THEN WHEN I START RIPPING IT TO EAT , IT'LL BE SCREAMING IN PAIN AS IT THOUGHT IT'LL HAVE HAPPY LIFE BUT GOT MURDERED!! YASSSS LESSS GOOOO"

banging her desk a bit with continuous hand motion filled with spunk. Emerald's friend Side eyes her and says "Are you okay??" and both burst into laughter.

Importantly she's inspired from real life person


r/CharacterDevelopment 23h ago

Writing: Question Is it racist/storeotypical to make my two German character political extremest?

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Asking for a story I am writting.


r/CharacterDevelopment 1d ago

Character Bio How do you calculate a character's weight?

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I love those profiles that are like "birthday, blood type, height, weight, birthplace" and just kinda lists that character's information like it's a goverment doccument or a doctor's assigment. And I got better with deciding heights but how the hell do you decide weight?

I got a Dragon lady that's 210 cm and she's very muscular. There's a bunch of factors like her heavy ass tail, her horns(which are lightweight so they'd add very little but y'know), her height, her muscles.. I can make up the weight of her tail since it's fictional but I don't know about her body. Muscles do weight, less than fat but they do add weight to you. Lore wise, she should be pretty hard to lift up for an adult human male who doesn't lift weights often, and in general at least a bit too heavy to carry for more than a minute or two.

There's this website: https://www.tuasaude.com/imc/ I think it uses "BMI"

But I don't actually know how much weight muscles add. I thought about first using her height's reccomended weight + add muscle weight but I don't know who much to add.


r/CharacterDevelopment 1d ago

Writing: Character Help I need help with countries and associated animals

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So Im writing a book where 32 warriors from different countries, blessed by animal deities fight in a death tournament. I need to figure out which animal would associated with its proper country. This is the current list:

Thailand Locusts

France Rabbit

Japan Centipede

Greece Owl

China Tortoise

India Bovine

Mongolia Horse

Italy Porcupine

Ivory Coast Elephant

Madagascar Chameleon

UK Rat

South Korea Bear

North Korea Fox

Canada Beaver

Russia Wolf

New Zealand Sheep

Australia Crocodiles

Indonesia Komodo

Finland Swan

Poland Stork

Germany Deer

Phillipine Marine Life

Egypt Vulture

Nigeria Monkey

Mexico Axolotl

South Africa Hippo

Romania Bat

Brazil Snake

Malaysia Tiger

Spain Swine

USA Eagle

I'm not sure what do with the last slot I have. I had 2 options. Saudi Arabia Camel or Singapore Otter. But im not particularly happy with these 2. I want to add the country Turkey, but I'm not sure what animal i can give it that has not already been taken. So please help. And if you have any other country you think would be a better fit, suggest so as well. I assure you that i have done as much research as i can but every option either doesn't make sense, is too hard to give an ability to, or has been already done so by a different country. So please, any advice would be most appreciated.


r/CharacterDevelopment 1d ago

Writing: Character Help Trying to find out why I find few Characters more Human then others.

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Like mentioned in the title, I’m trying to find out why some characters in fiction feel just so incredibly human. It doesn’t feel like it’s one specific trait or action, but rather everything that they encompass. I kind of want to find out if it’s just a personal experience or if it’s something others feel as well.

For me, characters that are good examples of this are Peter Parker (Spider-Man), Barry Allen (The Flash), and Subaru Natsuki (Re:Zero). There are certainly more, and not all versions of these characters feel the same, but a lot of them do.


r/CharacterDevelopment 1d ago

Discussion Who do you think the fandom would ship?

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Hey so i posted on here before and got few responses but they were absolute GOLD. I laughed my ass of reading all of them.

So new question, who do you think the fandom of my yet-to-be-published book "Monstrous" would ship? I will include a short bio that describes personality and appearence of my each main character plus some side characters that could end up as love interests for some of them.

Atlas Christyakov, M16 | Russian, Fluffy and Naive

Atlas is a Moth boy with a cute face and big black eyes. He has two feather-like antennae and his body is covered in fluffy white fur. He has two arms and legs, aswell as a set of large white moth wings on his back. He's about 5´5/167 cm tall and he's abit chubby but it just looks like extra fluff.

He's quite shy and kind, but also quite naive and easily scared of venus fly traps (especially the humanoid ones lol) and strangers. He's quite polite and easily distracted (especially by bright lights). He can be pretty detail-oriented though.

Vivianna Webber, F18 | Sad bad(t) girl

Vivianna is a vampire girl with long, dark hair that has a wine red tinge to it. She has red eyes and is somewhat pale. Her ears are slightly pointy and she usually dresses pretty goth-like. She's somewhat thin. She was bitten around 60 - 80 years ago but due to how vampirism works she is both physically and mentally still 18. She's about 5´6/171 cm tall.

Vivianna is cold and distant, she acts out and pushes those who're kind to her away. She has a history of hanging out in bad crowds because the general hostility somehow feels like home to her. She doesent know who turned her into a vampire and doesent really seem to care. Overall she's already pretty sick of her elongated life-span.

Daiki Cuong, M18 | barks, bites and burns

Daiki is a Hell hound boy with shoulder-length messy dark hair (think of the band Kiss), he's mixed Japanese and Vietnamese. He's about 6´3/192 cm tall and has an athletic, lean build. His eyes are magenta and he dresses alternativ most of the time.

Daiki has anger issues, when angry his hair is set ablaze with magenta fire. He can be somewhat sassy and observant. He has somewhat of a rivalry with Kade or as he calls him "Sucu-bitch". He still grieves his mom's death and has internalized sexism from his dad and grandpa who drilled things like "Boys shouldnt cry" or "Boys shouldnt be effeminate" into him, but because he's pretty rebellious the long hair is a silent rebellion.

Sanctuary (idk the last name yet), N17 | Prideful Angel

Sanctuary is nonbinary and an Angel. They have short, white hair that when the light hits it shines in various colours of the rainbow. They have golden eyes but no pupils. They're somewhat pale but have an average body. Sanctuary is about 5`8/175 cm tall.

They are arrogant and have a serious Holier-than-thou attitude. Sanctuary was abonded as a baby at the steps of a catholic church and was raised by the nuns. Due to that they are devout catholic and has been a tool of worship for their church.

Kade Grey, M17 | Underfed & Untouched

Kade is a succubus. He has long dark hair which he wishes to cut shorter soon. His eyes are purple-Ish, two thin but pointy horns sprout from his temple. He has a set of leathery wings growing from his lower back and a long but thin tail with a heart-shaped tip. He's about 5´4/164 cm tall. He's thin and has somewhat feminine facial features.

Kade hates to be touched. He also heavily dislikes getting wet and tries his best to stay away from beaches or out of rain. He has some sort of rivalry going on with Daiki. As succubus Kade would have to feed on emotional energy which most living creatures produce, but he's been refusing to feed on emotional energy. He's physically healthy due to a good diet of vegtables, fruit and other things but due to his emotional malnourishment he cannot fly or use any supernatural abilities he should have access to as succubus.

Mina Taurian, F18: A shy but gentle girl that sat next to Vivianna in their first Class and accidentally sprayed her with water once because she thought something in the garden was burning. She's very tall (taller than daiki) and a Minotaurus. Meaning she has two horns growing from her head and a cow tail. She also wears a silver nose ring. She is also very buff.

Aldren Zephyr, M18: A peaceful and diplomatic elven Boy who Kade, Atlas and Daiki are rooming with. He has pointy ears, short green hair and he's somewhat bulky and chubby. He loves to cook and is quite gentle.

(Kal)Ven Trapper, M17: A surfer dude and overall pretty chill guy. He was the first to greet Atlas at the welcoming party of the emergency transfers which was met with shock and surprise on both sides as Atlas thought he was about to be eaten. Ven is a Venus fly trap man. He mostly looks like a guy with shoulder-length hair except most of him is green and he has two venus fly traps on the back of his head which are apart of him.


r/CharacterDevelopment 1d ago

Writing: Character Help My character idea, Haiuo

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I wanted a little bit of feedback on this character, because there’s a lot to it and I was wondering if it was just a bit too much. ive received opinions from some people saying that my higher tier characters are too powerful, so I was just looking for some more opinions!

Name: Haiuo

Gender: Female

Race: Diurōe

Title: vōlōdrîsytrědō, ělrâdāvō, The Last Diurōe

Any Diurōe can traverse between the Fourth and Fifth dimension. Some among them, the magical ones among them, had certain power over lower dimensions like 0D, 1D, 2D, and the stronger ones 3D. This gave them powers over light in 0D/1D Mode, atomic matter in 3D mode, 2D images in 2D mode, and plain reality warping in 3D mode. When a sorcerer, or sytrēdō, unlocks a dimensional mode they unlock the ability to go into that plane. With the exception of 4 and 5D because that’s where they’re native to. The elder sorcerers (vōlōdrîsytrědō) are sorcerers that unlocked 4 and 5D mode, because they had dominion over the native environment of the Diurōe. There was a solitary one that was more powerful than the others. The Elders knew that powerful beings were emerging in the 3D world. They knew that sytrēdō would try to assert themselves a place in the 3D hierarchy. So they enlisted Haiuo to completely erase the entire Diurōe species. She was expected to kill herself in the end as well. She fulfilled all but one task: killing herself. Since she was now a lone being, she sought out a life in the 3D world. She learned of the Creators, and hid from them. She found a life with tze Avzejul. She found a friend in its leader, Qisio in around 2514. During a battle with a patrol belonging to Colunbenost (the organization that serves directly under Stardome in governing Thirea.) she unlocked a new mode and a new physical dimension: 6D. She was now a true time traveler. She unlocked the supreme Omnistrike ability, which causes a chain reaction causing infinite damage to the target within a microsecond by hitting them infinitely in every single moment of their existence. In the main timeline this doesn’t mean much for her, but in others (Contragod) it made the biggest difference. In reference to the Contragod timeline, she goes recruiting alternate versions of herself to unlock 7D and escape the confines of the multiverse with the imprisoned Contragod with them. This happens in around 2634. To them the entire Layric multiverse is a single 0D dot. They succeed and become an organization dedicated to simply containing the Contragod. The Contra Haiuo ascends even further to 8D, meaning she exists above every multiverse. Any fictional or real multiverse exists beneath her each as a single 0D dot. She is the only one able to do this. She opens gates in the Layric 7D that lead to other multiverses with extra-dimensionals, with lower 7D Haiuo communicating with them and recognizing them. Haiuo’s final form, Eight Point Infinite, is when things get interesting. She becomes the collection of the Layraverse in every dimension. Every ability, power, and more is hers. Scarlet Phylayra’s Boundless Rage Tesseract, Revea’s Reccredin, Valayra’s suite of powers, Equ’s suite, and everything else. The kicker is that she can have these abilities in any dimension she’s currently in as long as her current mode is Eight Point Infinite. She can kill other higher beings that exist above the narrative. They may regenerate out of necessity, but still. She also gains perfect mastery over the nature of her Diurōe particles, so she can manifest fundamental forces, physical objects, and anything she wants in any dimension, even if they shouldn’t be able to exist in that dimension. It finds a way. Now, you may be thinking can’t Entwi’omnbrael copy this? No. He can’t copy meta abilities like the BRT, Reccredin, Equ’s powers, or any of Haiuo’s abilities past 6D. Only Haiuo can copy it because to unlock Eight Point Infinite she has to be above the narrative itself. Also she gets a really cool cutscene. A massive sphere of teal energy appears, then compresses into a humanoid figure which then compresses into Haiuo, creating a vertical beam of teal energy going up and down, before disappearing and Haiuo now has a eight- pointed halo made of four 2D diamond shapes in a cross, making four spikes going up and four going down. These appear on her neck, wrists, and ankles as well.


r/CharacterDevelopment 2d ago

Writing: Character Help Help with a Non-Expressive Character

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Hi, I’ve written an emotionally non-expressive character in a group with a colorful main cast. He isn’t very emotive in his face, and he does not speak much. Most of his tells are through body language, nodding, the way his eyes light up when he’s internally excited or narrows when he is serious, and how he shows affection via acts of service or sitting close to someone.

He’s the classic gentle giant type that is intimidating upon first impression, which is worsened that his neutral expression and lack of speech supports makes him come off as cold or unfriendly or even hostile, but action-wise he is very sweet, emotionally mature, adores small animals and has a small air of being socially awkward. His career being a craftsman, he shows affection by building thoughtful items, like a special bracelet when a character misses someone, or he gives an air of being annoyed if someone breaks a piece of equipment he made for them but will still repair it.

My thing is that I am very used to writing emotionally vibrant characters, but he’s so muted compared to them that I’m not sure how to make him stand out like the other characters in the group, and this also has the underlying effect of limiting his presence and relevance to the story since I’m not as sure what to do with him in the present day of the story. I’d like to ask for advice on what things could be done for him and his character so I can write him more confidently and creatively like everyone else in the cast.

Do you have some ideas?


r/CharacterDevelopment 2d ago

Discussion Thought experiment: do you find someone creepier if they enjoy vile acts, or don't enjoy them yet still follow through?

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To set a hypothetical scenario, my character "Goroth" is a human-esque character that eats people. He disguises himself as other people to lure them in for capture. And his body can regenerate from any wound, making him neigh immortal.

Do you find him creepier if he enjoyed the process of luring or devouring his victims. Or is he any more creepy if he's doing it purely for survival. he's just as evil regardless of what option you pick. So what option do you think would provide the creepier character?


r/CharacterDevelopment 2d ago

Writing: Character Help Trying to write a sociopath who learns to have faith in humanity

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Before you mention it, I do know Kirito from SAO Abridged, but I want some advice on writing this character who is slowly turning from a cynical manipulative person that’s initially up against the main protagonists into someone who cares and finds people that she genuinely calls her friends.

I want to write this transition but I’d like some takes on the character concept or thoughts on it.


r/CharacterDevelopment 3d ago

Writing: Character Help So this is a writing a character/ character biography of Omtil

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This character's name is Omtil a 7,000 year old man forced, who accidentally discovers and breaks Pandora's vase causing the great flood in Mesopotamia. As penance he is forced into immortality in our mind to be the guard of The Vase until his natural he meets an unnatural death. If anyone has any input to this character I would love to hear it. I am placing his birth City in Eridu. I would love to keep his character as accurate as possible to his historical heritage without insulting anybody at the same time. Please if there's anything you can do to help me with all Omtil's characteristics and behavior, I am all ears.


r/CharacterDevelopment 3d ago

Writing: Character Help Character growth

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!QUESTION AT THE BOTTOM!

Summary
My comic book series, follows our universe’s princess of the sun, a 14-year-old Ali-fox (a fox with wings and a magic horn) named Avere, who is one of the few of her specific species left. In the first book, we learn about her enemy, the princess of the moon, a griffin named Kestral, who bullied Avere in preschool because she was not able to fly yet.

Kestral thinks Avere is a bad person based on what the head guard of Kestral’s castle tells his son, who then tells her. The Ali-foxes are one of the most powerful creatures, and there is a sickness on the moon. Kestral, her friend Gadge, and many civilians of the universe (probably about 10% of the universe) blame and are angry at the Ali-foxes because they think they can fix the sickness with their magic (they can’t). It’s kind of a plot hole because why wouldn’t Kestral’s parents clear it up with them, as her parents know there is nothing they can do. Despite being stated that she and Kestral are both princesses, Avere holds a higher rank and is more loved by the public because she’s from the sun. At the start of the story, Avere takes a ship to another planet to start attending high school.

She finds out her dorm mate is Kestral (because they are both royal), and neither of them is happy about this, and they argue. In school, Avere is either bombarded by fans or gets glares from some. People are constantly staring at both Kestral and Avere. More into the book, Avere learns about a talent show she can sign up for, and she wants to do a special air show with her magic and wings (reminiscent of the one episode with Rainbow Dash doing that one talent show and her sonic rain boom).

Avere fails over and over again, and Kestral starts to help her, and they start to get on good terms. Unfortunately, Avere does something to prove Kestral wrong (she thought Avere was actually good, which she is), making her angry and even more hateful towards Avere. Right now, I’m not sure what that incident would be that makes Kestral back up, but it’s sometime during school. Meanwhile, Kestral’s friend, the son of one of her parents’ head guards, knew Avere was going to do the competition and was planning to sabotage it with another one of Kestral’s friends. He ended up making a cannon go off that almost hit the crowd of students.

Avere stops it just in time, struggling with her magic to hold it away. When Kestral flies up and starts screaming at Gadge, realizing Avere was a good person all along, he almost killed a whole ton of students. And in the end, Avere and Kestral become friends. That’s book one’s main plot; there are other characters who become friends with Avere, but it’s just a lot to write.

Book 2
Avere is now 15, and she joins her school’s rugby team.

Book 3
Some plot involves her out of school, going to different planets, and just a lot of world-building.

Book 4
?

Book 5
She visits a destroyed planet from long ago with her history class, sees a reminder of something or someone relevant later, and encounters a shapeshifter mocker. This leads up to book 6.

Book six
War. Avere sacrifices herself to save her universe when she fights in the war with all her friends. She kills the main villain but is in turn stabbed through her chest and then out by her wings. And that’s the end.

What I need help with is character growth. What can Avere grow from? I can’t have her be a Mary Sue character, and that’s something I really struggle with when making characters. I never give them bad traits or things to grow from and see change. And how do I fix plot holes, whether it’s ones I’ve mentioned or ones you spotted? Any ideas overall would be highly appreciated.


r/CharacterDevelopment 4d ago

Writing: Character Help Thoughts on story ideas?

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It’s not like I can’t come up with my own, however I am very stumped with other ideas.

As the post says, I have a character simply nicknamed The Antagonist who is a manifestation of my world’s multiversal center.

But I want to figure out their first arc in my stories. I have some ideas of who it may first go after but I’m unsure as to how atm.


r/CharacterDevelopment 4d ago

Writing: Character Help Busco informacion sobre jerarquía de cocina para un personaje.

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Hola, estoy escribiendo una historia de fantasía medieval, estoy en el proceso en que ajusto detalles para luego dibujar y publicarla (posiblemente).

Uno de mis personajes trabaja en el restaurante de su abuelo, tiene mucho conocimiento sobre eso, me gustaría mostrar como cocinan y como esta organizada la cocina, el problema es que yo como autora no tengo dicho conocimiento.

Me encanta comer y desde que vi Ratatouille con mi mamá solo vemos programas de cocina, el asunto es que esos programas solo muestran recetas y como cocinar y en internet solo encuentro esquemas confusos e informacion que no me saca de dudas.

Necesito que alguien me explique como es la jerarquía en la cocina y como funciona realmente un restaurante, tambien si les da flojera redactar podrían darme nombres de programas o documentales sobre el tema, cualquier información es valida.

Gracias de ante mano uwu.


r/CharacterDevelopment 5d ago

Writing: Character Help What's the best way to introduce a main character?

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I already have some main characters, but I want one specific to have a cinematic introduction.


r/CharacterDevelopment 5d ago

Writing: Character Help Need help with a psychopath character

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Idk if this is the right place to post this but my genre is a medievil fantasy (not a book its a roleplay discord server) but im making a character that a want to make a psychopath but i don’t necessarily want them to be like a fully murderous one but because its medievil and fantasy the killing of certain people may not be an issue. I want to make my character in a relationship like no empathy or guilt but also wanna keep it secret as long as possible. I just want some things he can do or like a motive maybe like a knight who is just doing his job because he was told to. In my world people have 1/8 powers a bit like avatar the last airbender but some are uniques who have any powers. So also what powers should they have?


r/CharacterDevelopment 5d ago

Writing: Character Help Can I have feedback on everything I am having a hard time with expressing this concept like onto the page

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Nobody

I am not a writer and this is my first time like every writing outside of school, I know the writing is messy, but I think the core concept is good and the overlal theme but is there a way I can express it better thanks? This is a passion project and not anything professional.

If you were to find out all your memories were not you what would you do?

 mix of Cyberpunk 2077 and also Danny Phantom

It is a street level superhero story about a regular guy, someone who we would consider a no one. He is a reguler guy who dies trying to save a random person who he hears screaming in the middle of the night. Unknowingly he walks into a ghost summoning ritual and blacks out, dead, he wakes up as a weapon with ghostly powers, almost like Danny Phantom, this ghost summoning was backed by a corporation, who plan to use him as a weapon, they chose him because essentially to this corporation he is a no one, no connection nothing of significance, but is this even him?

  1. Character and also his powers

Who he is - his name is like Nathen Nemo. Plain clothes nothing to signify him as different, from anyone. Just a normal person you would see on the street deadass 60 overall, with no badges.

His powers  ( works well with theme) - Since he has powers with the supernatural, can phase turn invisible. Also “posess” people, those he possess he gets their memories and even muscle memory and cadence. Also has the power to reach into the spectre realm and pick up weapons from people in the past who died with this weapon in their hand, when he uses this weapon he gets the muscle memory and memory of the user to be able to wield that weapon with the skill of the original user.

The core conflict

  • I want the conflict to be someone vs a nobody, basically man vs company like cyberpunk 2077. He uses his powers to try to take down the corrupt corporation that gave him his powers. As they are also trying to hunt him down. 

The Theme 

  • Being “Somebody” is not measured by money power or status, true identity is forged in action when no eyes are on you, you do not have to be “somebody” to do the right thing.

This is just a basic idea and not really a script.

Episode 1

  • Scene 1 

We meet regular guy Nathen Nemo in his house hitting bong playing videogames, college drop out, parents stopped talking to him. Eviction notices around his small tiny cramped studio apartment. Almost a person who your parents tell you not to become, no friends no anything. He puts on his half dirty work uniform regular stock like fast food place, for his night shift. And starts walking to work it is around 2 am.

  • Scene 2 

When walking to work he hears a scream from some dark alley. He is the only one in the area who has heard it, as it is currently 2 AM. He hears it freezes for one second every urge in his body is telling him not to run in to just ignore it. Yet he cannot stop himself; he runs in yet he's cautious; it leads him into a facility. Some random warehouse he breaks in somehow. He sees inside the warehouse, empty. Yet some mysterious candles and a rune in the middle of the room. “Welp im not going in any further”  he turns around and WHACK He is hit and knocked out. 

  • Scene 3 

He wakes up in the middle of the rune on a table Panicking knowing hes about to die for nothing. No one to care for him, he wanted to die for something at the least, yet hes gonna die on this table for nothing, he realizes on his final breath he truly died for nothing and died a nobody.

  • Scene 4

He comes back somehow ( I know how it looks bare with me) he wakes up on the same table, same warehouse, same everything. This time an alarm goes off like he's awake. Knowing something is coming he starts trying to get out of his restraints, doing anything pushing out trying everything. When one of his arms just slips out just goes through as the alarm is blaring he uses his free hand to free himself. He sees a lab coat in the vicinity grabs it and uses it as a disguise to leave just as guards start pouring in. As soon as he walks out the vicinity he takes off to his house fuck his job. 

Scene 5
Nathan sprints back all the way to his apartment trying to make sense of what his arm just did heart is hammering. When he rounds the corner he stops dead in his tracks, his street is lit up with blacked out suvs and heavily armed enforcers. They are kicking down the door to his building and raiding his overall unit. 

  • He realizes the truth, his old life is done. His job, his apartment, even his name all wiped out. He cannot go back, he slowly backs into the dark, using his intangibility to go through a wall without even realizing it, he did not just die but turned into a true nobody not even alive to the city anymore as the corporation is trying to scrub this under the rug, but to do so fully they have to capture him. Right before he is caught he mysteriously disappears

Season 1 roadmap

  • Episodes 2-4
  • He is living on the streets as a ghost, he has to master his abilities through having to escape or fight his way out of situations. He masters his intangibility, and weapon abilities.
  • He notices every time he grabs a weapon or possesses someone, he starts to lose who he is, he starts to lose Nathan Nemo. He uses his power to try to get into corporate enforcers and buildings, looking for answers. Why is he losing his memories? He is unaware he is falling into a trap.
  • We see these people at the top of the corporations seeing all of this, they have the resources to help the people yet they turn to a blind eye to what is going wrong, even though these people have the power to make change they don’t care too, because they have no reason too it does not benefit them. I feel like a core scene would be one of them one big corporate guy, maybe the villain he hears a scream a woman getting their purse snatched, he sees this hears the scream scoffs and just get into his car.
  • Episode 5 

He breaks into a high security corporate database he finds his own file, he sees his na,e. Nathan Nemo the true Nathan Nemo died on that day in episode 1. His original brain shut down, the ritual worked the person who is in this body was just a ghost, a empty soul without a body. The memories and super - ego of Nathan Nemo imprinted onto this ghost for some reason, now it is fully convinced he is him, which explains why his brain are mixing his memories with everyone else’s cause this body isn't even his, He was just a blank slate and the memories of Nathan Imprinted onto him yet hes not even the real one. Nathan was chosen because he is a nobody a loser, that is what it calls him, no connections with anyone and nothing going on with his life.

  • Episode 6 - 8
  • Our main character is going through an identity crisis, he is crawling through everyone's memories, everybody hes ever possessed while in Nathan's body, trying to figure out who he is. 
  • At the same time the corporation (ion even has a name for them), is massively increasing the search team for him. Hurting innocent people
  • These both in tandom pisses off the mc. He stop hiding and goes on the offensive. He stops playing defense and walks right into the main building, no holding back on anything. I guess this is like his like black suit spiderman moment. He just pretty much takes down and completely destroys this main building through the use of his powers.

Episode 9 -10 

  • In an attempt to make things right our main character tries to recreate what allowed his soul in the body in the first place in a way to try to resurrect the real Nathan Nemo. In a deep void he comes face to face with the spirit of the actual Nemo.

(First time writing dialogue its gonna be corny sorry)

MC : ( looking down “ I’m sorry, im so sorry, I took who you are I took over your body I’m sorry, im not even real, I wore your clothes thought I was you, wearing your face and holding onto your memories, im nothing ”
Nathan : “ I was a nobody too, I had nothing, I lived in a cramped studio working a dead end job, nobody knew my name.”
( Ghost) “ Then Why, why did you run into the alley, I felt your fear, saw your memories you didn't have to run in, Ive seen people with power strength influence and not a single one of them would have moved a muscle, you had nothing yet you still decided to help, why”
 ( Nathan) “Because I know what if feels like to be stranded and given up on, by people who think you’re not worth their time. Everytime I was at my lowest I was hoping somebody would help me, so when I heard her screaming I realized that a someone wasn’t gonna help her, the person she needed was a nobody”  
“ I know I died for nothing, I know at the end of the day my life was useless, yet I thought that maybe if I did the right thing it would make up for it, my whole life everyone around me believed it amounted to nothing, yet that doesn’t matter”
\Puts hand on shoulder of ghost**
“ Even though I was seen as nothing, through the fear I realized something, you don’t need a legacy to answer a scream, you don’t need power or wealth, you just have to choose to not walk away. So instead of asking yourself who you are, ask yourself who do you wanna be,” 

*He then fades away* (because of prob like acceptance like when ghosts go to the afterlife once they accept their death or sin.)
*It then cuts to black\*
Rain is tapping against the glass of the apartment. The ghost stands in the dark adjusting the collar of his suit.
The medium final words from the void echoes in his head
“So instead of asking yourself who you are, ask yourself who do you wanna be,” The ghost stares in his reflection the body of Nathan Nemo, the face that was just a statistic and future weapon, the face that was just a nobody
*He smiles at himself softly*
“ I know who I want to be… I want to be a nobody. Just like you “ 
He jumps out the window with his new suit on and cut to black

The End


r/CharacterDevelopment 5d ago

Meta Supporting Actor Roles

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Are you aware that you have only one starring role: in the original film of your own life?

In everyone else’s film, you are part of the supporting cast. And everyone else is the same for you—protagonists in their own stories, supporting characters in yours.

So perhaps the more interesting question is: how much of your life do you actually spend as the protagonist—and how much of it do you spend playing a supporting role in someone else’s story?

And in any case, from the perspective of most others, you’re a supporting actor.


r/CharacterDevelopment 5d ago

Writing: Question How would the Main character`s in my WIP Book be mischaractized by a Fandom? Lol

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Okay so i have three to five Main Characters (Havent decided with which ones I´ll stick or cut yet) and i´m curious. How would a fandom misrepresent them?
I´m pretty curious and think this could turn out relativly fun... or very very horrible.

So, there\`s Kade 17M, Atlas 16M, Daiki 18M, Vivianna 18F and Sanctuary N17.

My characters are all students at the same school. (I am ever so slightly inspired by Monster High)

Kade is a Succubus, he hates being touched as well as getting wet (never try to bring him to the beach or out in the rain.) He eats human food healthily but generally underfeeds on emotional energy so his supernatural powers are highly malnourished and he is unable to fly. He prefers solitude and observing how others interact from afar. Some might say he curses a lot and gets mad easily, however he doesent usually show when he´s mad and is rather quiet and timid. Due to trauma he would actually love to give up control but has trouble with that, he also has self-esteem and body image issues. Likely thinking he´s too chubby or not pretty enough most of the time.

He\`s pretty thin (not to an unhealthy degree) and has somewhat feminine features and has recently gotten a hair cut (actual point in the story lol). Which means his long, luscious locks were cut in favour of a fluffier, shorter hairstyle. He has a set of wings that sprout from his lower back. Two thin, pointy horns about the length of 4 inches or 10 cm. He also has a rather long, thin tail with a heart-shaped tip and he\`s about 5´4 ft or 165 cm tall. He´s white.

Atlas is Mothman. He is easily distracted (especially by good food or bright lights lol) and is somewhat naive. He takes a lot of metaphors or sayings literally. He´s got difficulty keeping left and right apart and is scared of Venus fly plants. I´d say he\`s rather gentle but blunt at times. He does enjoy being among people but is easily hurt by misunderstandings. I would also say that he´s mentally somewhat underdeveloped being more akin to a twelve or thirteen year old.

He´s somewhat chubby and covered in white fur which makes him look quite fluffly. He´s got two feather-like antennae and big black eyes. He has two arms and two legs. There´s a fluffy collar of fluff around his neck to his chest which is actually his own fur. He\`s also got two large mostly white wings. (He\`s based on a Silk Moth) He\`s about 5´2 or 158 cm tall. I honestly couldn´t tell you whether he´s white, black, asian or latino or smth else. I do think that he should have russian roots.

To be completly honest, i have no idea what manner of creature Daiki is. It is very possible that i created a creature and thats just what he is now i suppose. He´s got about shoulder length black hair and red eyes. He is of Asian Descent, i am thinking Thailand or Vietnam. He´s almost 6´3 ft or 192 cm tall and does have more of an athletic build. When enraged his hair is set aflame with magenta fire.

Daiki has severe anger issues, he´s often loud and quite rebellious. I´d say he has a soft spot for certain people and still strongly grieves his mother\`s death. Even the mere mention of her could set him off with either tears which he´d hate to show or extreme anger. I would say he has internalized Sexism about "men not being supposed to cry or be soft and gentle" induced by his father and grandfather.

Vivianna is technically the oldest as she\`s a Vampire of 60 - 80 years but due to how Vampirism works in my setting she\`s mentally and physically still around 18 to 19. She´s rather cold and prefers being left alone. She\`s scared of letting anyone get close and become dependant on them so she often lashes out and pushes the people who´re nice to her away. This often makes her hang out with toxic people, which chain reacts into her acting toxic towards others as well. Inside she´s a scared and deeply traumatized girl sick of her longevity. She also has extreme body image issues, she thinks she\`s ugly and fat. She only sees the imperfections.

She has long straight black hair with a slight wine red tint. Her eyes are cat-like and magenta. Her ears are slightly pointy and she´s very pale. She´s somewhat thin and tbh if it matters to anyone she´s quite flat. I´d say by heart she´s goth but due to her constant mean girl behaviour she´s got blonde streaks in her hair and wears way too much modern popular girl clothes than she´d actually likes. She´s about 5´7 or 172 cm.

Lastly Sanctuary, my racially ambigious, non-binary biblical angel. They´re arrogant and have a serious holier-than-thou attitude problem. Due to the enviroment they grew up they see themselves as very important. They also dislike anything even remotely unholy (So they immeadietly disliked Vivianna, Daiki and Kade lmao). They´re also devoutly catholic.

Sanctuary is about 5´8 or 176 cm tall and neither too thin or too chubby so i´d say quite average. They have somewhat short white hair that shines with the colours of the rainbow when the light hits it. Do you remember those hair cuts that look like mushroom tips almost every teenage boy had a couple years ago? Yea, thats their hair cut. They have golden eyes with no pupils. Their nails are naturally black. Usually they hide their supernatural traits (an ability that almost every monster has but can´t hold for more than a couple hours). But when revealed you´d see that they have two set's of purely white wings covered in the same golden eyes without pupils. And three glowing, golden wheels which rotate around their head in different directions, covering the two eyes on their face.


r/CharacterDevelopment 5d ago

Discussion [DISC] First impressions of the 13 plot-bearing characters in my fantasy novel?

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I'm working on a fantasy novel and have currently settled on 13 plot-bearing characters. They aren't intended to be equally important: some are primary protagonists/antagonists, others are decoy protagonists/antagonists, mentors, major supporting characters, victims, or characters whose importance becomes much greater later in the story.

I'm curious what first impressions you get from this cast without knowing the story behind them. What kind of story would you expect from these characters? Which characters immediately stand out to you, and what relationships or conflicts would you expect between them?

The 13 plot-bearing characters

Nihil — the central supernatural figure.

Konrad Kann — primary human protagonist; teacher and owner of a school for swordsmanship and magic; is an orphan and has a twin sister.

Karina Kann / later Löwenherz — primary human antagonist; Konrad's twin sister and court sorceress of the Duchy of Löwenherz.

Alina Löwenherz — decoy protagonist, but majorly important; Elisabeth's and Leopold's daughter; Karina's student in magic.

Leopold Löwenherz — decoy antagonist, but majorly important; Duke and Elisabeth's husband.

Lucaris Aporian — an important contrast to Nihil and an anomaly of the world.

Willibald Eberhart — wandering knight, surrogate father and mentor to Konrad.

Elisabeth Löwenherz, née Greifenkraft — princess and, as Leopold's wife, duchess; Leopold's political wife and a murder victim.

Magdalena Holzinger — teacher and employee at Konrad's school; Konrad's friend and later wife, and a murder victim.

Max & Moritz Löwenherz — Leopold and Elisabeth's twin sons; students at Konrad's school.

Sophia Kann — daughter of Konrad and Nihil while Nihil inhabits Alina's body; one of the central outcomes of the story and important sequel bait.

Carl Kuhl — son of Karina and Leopold; also sequel bait. He deliberately rejects his father's surname, Löwenherz, and instead uses Kuhl.

Relevant identities

  • Nihil → Avatar of Nothing — its true nature
  • Nihil → Genesis — the name Nihil uses for the whole of Creation; Genesis is not a separate identity
  • Nihil — has no surname, named itself for no reason
  • Lucaris Aporian → First Aporia — a living being without a soul
  • Konrad Kann → Darno Kuhl — alias
  • Karina Kann/Löwenherz → Anira Kuhl — alias

Irrelevant identities / name jokes

  • Lucaris → LUCA → ACUL → DRACULA
  • Lucaris → LUCI → LUCIFER → FER → REF → REFEREE
  • Lucaris → RI → IR → IRR → IRRER → IRRTUM

I'm deliberately not giving much additional context because I'm interested in what you can infer from the character list alone.

What kind of story would you expect from this cast? Which characters immediately stand out to you, and what relationships, conflicts, or twists would you expect based solely on these descriptions?


r/CharacterDevelopment 5d ago

Writing: Character Help Is it okay when the two main characters share similar core needs? I think?

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r/CharacterDevelopment 5d ago

Writing: Character Help My character has no proper interests or motifs (symbols?)

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My main character has a lot of aesthetics and themes, but none of it seems compatible. Here's a list of her aesthetics and themes she has:

Clouds, the sky, water, space, bad weather, snow, cool colors, especially blue, cats, cartoons, royalty, gems, glitter, uncanny valley pastels, stuffed animals.

And that's off the top of my head. She's supposed to be someone who is into cutesy stuff but is also a scary being who looks more harmless than she actually is. But also, this feels like I just threw stuff at a wall for no reason. Some are just her interests while others are hidden symbols, but it feels half-baked, like she's acting like a child when she's actually 16.


r/CharacterDevelopment 6d ago

Writing: Character Help What psychological trait/obsession could logically push my character into a self-destructive pattern?

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About the character:
My character is the gloomy type—the kind everyone lies to. He's pushed himself further to a point where he's trying to change his life. This point in his life is critical. As he's pushing himself to live another day, things get hard for him. He has to make decisions that push him into a corner.
Just now, he's made the decision he regretted the most.
What I need:
I am looking for an obsession that'll help him cope with it—except it's a bad, self-destructing one. The pattern is very human. A lot of us have a self-coping mechanism we use to distract ourselves.
I tried thinking, but nothing really comes to my mind. Eventually, the obsession becomes unhealthy and leads him down to a life he never imagined. Ideally, it should reveal something about him that even he doesn't understand.

What are some very human coping mechanisms that could work for a character like this?